Thank You GDS

[Blackman]

<p>Living the dream, eh? <span class="ipsEmoji">😎</span></p><p> </p><p>

Awesome to hear its going well.</p>

[Sco xY2Jx]

<p>Dude, that's incredible. Living the dream!</p><p> </p><p>

Keep the updates coming and I've now bookmarked the website to dip in occasionally and check you out. I'm in Scotland so unlikely to ever get to make a show but I'm rooting for you. Congrats, fella!</p><p> </p><p>

*PWT! PWT! PWT!*</p>

[apollyon]

That's awesome!

[BHK1978]

<p>I always wondered how an Indy promotion goes about booking international talent. Do you pay for the travel, room and board or do you just pay them for their work and leave the other stuff to them?</p><p> </p><p>

I completely understand if you are not willing to answer this question. It is just something I have always been curious about.</p>

[NoNeck]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BHK1978" data-cite="BHK1978" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I always wondered how an Indy promotion goes about booking international talent. Do you pay for the travel, room and board or do you just pay them for their work and leave the other stuff to them?<p> </p><p> I completely understand if you are not willing to answer this question. It is just something I have always been curious about.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It totally depends on what the talent is looking for. And it's not limited to just international booking either. Guys that are stateside ask for the same types of deals as international workers do. There are guys that will drive ridiculous miles just to work and then there are guys who want you to pay for their gas and tolls in addition to their match rate.</p><p> </p><p> So, short answer, travel and accommodations both are in play. </p><p> </p><p> Hope that helps. If anyone has any questions about this stuff, I'm more than willing to share what I've learned. In fact, I legitimately learn something new about this business every single day. It's fascinating in a way that I can't quite describe.</p>

[NoNeck]

<p>Booked Jimmy Jacobs for our November event. Curious to meet him.</p><p> </p><p>

<img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Irish Wolf]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="NoNeck" data-cite="NoNeck" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Booked Jimmy Jacobs for our November event. Curious to meet him.<p> </p><p> <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> He's a nice. Was at one of our shows when his girlfriend (at the time don't know if he's still seeing her) was working. Although showing up in a suit and flip flops was a bit odd.</p>

[Rayelek]

Kinda forgot about this, but congratulations on this dude, glad it's going awesome. Any word on distribution yet? Also, I went to a local show (western Wisconsin) and could PM you the names of some of the guys I dug, unless you're overwhelmed with guys already.

[Uncrewed]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="NoNeck" data-cite="NoNeck" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Booked Jimmy Jacobs for our November event. Curious to meet him.<p> </p><p> <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> WHAT A NAME!!!</p><p> </p><p> For such a new company to have such a big name on the indy scene is really cool!</p>

[NoNeck]

<p>November show is in the books, having gone down this past Sunday. We added even more infrastructure stuff and the room and the building look phenomenal. And we have still yet to actually use our digital projector and stretch screen above the entranceway at all. It keeps coming down to time.</p><p> </p><p>

The matches, the show itself went off without a hitch. Sonny Kiss is someone you guys should know. A flat out superstar. He wrestled King Leon the Sixth and they legit stole the show on a fairly loaded card. The Era of Violence continued their hardcore reign of terror, destroying Jeff Cannonball, who chose a garbage can full of weapons as his mystery partner. Kendo sticks broke, someone was powerbombed into a pile of legos, and eventually the EOV frog splashed Cannonball for the win, crushing the garbage can between them.</p><p> </p><p>

Jimmy Jacobs was awesome; a true professional. He took the time to discuss what I had (not) scripted for him and explain that everyone needs production. I was deferring to his talents and he was looking for more direction. Pretty interesting perspective from a great mind. His match with Mike Orlando was ridiculous, and after Orlando took the win, Jimmy put he and PWT over to chants of "That Was Awesome!". And, as he did to win the title, Foxx Vinyer needed the help of his second/bodyguard Kennedi Copeland to topple the 6'6 350 pound NY indy legend TJ Marconi. Our authority figure, Lucas Troy, was not excited about the second straight shmozz finish in his title matches and immediately made a triple threat ladder match between Foxx, Orlando, and Marconi for January.</p><p> </p><p>

All in all, I'm pretty excited with where we are. The living, breathing GDS dynasty is going strong. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[NoNeck]

<p>Wanted to keep everyone in the loop. But instead of a long winded write-up, here's a link to a highlight video from Pro Wrestling Takeover's show this past Sunday.</p><p> </p><p>

<img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p>

 

</p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo"><div><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Pnd7G7rhnIk?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Pro Wrestling Takeover : Infamous Highlight Video"></iframe></div></div>

[supershot]

<p>That was highly entertaining man! Some stuff made me wince a little but this is overall above and beyond what I expected. You seem to have some pretty decent workers in this highlight video!</p><p> </p><p>

I'm happy for you man, and hope it continues to be successful for you!</p>

[NoNeck]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="supershot" data-cite="supershot" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That was highly entertaining man! Some stuff made me wince a little but this is overall above and beyond what I expected. You seem to have some pretty decent workers in this highlight video!<p> </p><p> I'm happy for you man, and hope it continues to be successful for you!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thanks, Supershot. I know what we are. I see our shortcomings more than I see the things we do well. But I can also see where we're going, with the support we've been getting, and the level of talent we have both in the ring and behind the scenes, and I'm stoked.</p><p> </p><p> Glad you dug the video. We're announcing our next show online this week. After that ladder match that legit did thousands of dollars of damage to the venue, I'm curious to see what they think of our next main event. LOL.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt=";)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/wink.png.686f06e511ee1fbf6bdc7d82f6831e53.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[supershot]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="NoNeck" data-cite="NoNeck" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Thanks, Supershot. I know what we are. I see our shortcomings more than I see the things we do well. But I can also see where we're going, with the support we've been getting, and the level of talent we have both in the ring and behind the scenes, and I'm stoked.<p> </p><p> Glad you dug the video. We're announcing our next show online this week. After that ladder match that legit did thousands of dollars of damage to the venue, I'm curious to see what they think of our next main event. LOL.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt=";)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/wink.png.686f06e511ee1fbf6bdc7d82f6831e53.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Do you have commentators? Also do you have a place to view shows online?</p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="supershot" data-cite="supershot" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Do you have commentators? Also do you have a place to view shows online?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You could probably set up a YouTube and use Patreon as a subscription service until you get your own online servers fixed up. Just set up the videos to unlisted when you post the links and only your backers will see them on Patreon. Its not very difficult to set up and might be a potential for extra income. You could probably put together highlight packages that you set up as public videos on your YouTube as an avenue to encourage people to subscribe to your Patreon.</p>

[NoNeck]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="supershot" data-cite="supershot" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Do you have commentators? Also do you have a place to view shows online?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> We do have commentators, yes. Actually, that's what step we're on in the production process right now with our last show, INFAMOUS. I've always been a believer in doing PBP and color in post editing. There's just so many more opportunities to tell the stories the right way, to foreshadow and layer, and most importantly, just get it right.</p><p> </p><p> We're keeping our distribution plan on the down low (as some might say) for now, because we have a lot of irons in the fire. One venue we've discussed is hosting our own online network and having all of our content available there. We have some many fun things in the works; I'd like to keep as much of it in-house as possible. That's just who I am.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You could probably set up a YouTube and use Patreon as a subscription service until you get your own online servers fixed up. Just set up the videos to unlisted when you post the links and only your backers will see them on Patreon. Its not very difficult to set up and might be a potential for extra income. You could probably put together highlight packages that you set up as public videos on your YouTube as an avenue to encourage people to subscribe to your Patreon.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Very interesting. Looking into it. Thanks K-Nection!</p>

[NoNeck]

<p>March 11th's "Rise of the Machine' Event Highlight Video</p><p> </p><p>

 

</p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo"><div><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QeVyMi1VD50?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="PWT"></iframe></div></div><p> </p><p>

Our best show yet. Starting to figure things out.</p><p> </p><p>

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NN</p>

[Martel123]

I personally love the Power Poll. It's quite creative and brings a sense of realism to the company.

[NoNeck]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Martel123" data-cite="Martel123" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I personally love the Power Poll. It's quite creative and brings a sense of realism to the company.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thanks. There are a lot of things that we're trying, a lot of it in a "throw it all to the wall and see what sticks" manner. The Power Poll is one of those things. Another is our new podcast, which is patterned after the old 1-900 wrestling hotlines.</p><p> </p><p> I'm really interested in nostalgia as a promotional tool. Our new poster/graphic for our next event looks like an old PWI magazine cover.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/photos/a.113357719299430.1073741828.110637116238157/179598979341970/?type=3&theater" rel="external nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/photos/a.113357719299430.1073741828.110637116238157/179598979341970/?type=3&theater</a></p>

[BHK1978]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="NoNeck" data-cite="NoNeck" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Thanks. There are a lot of things that we're trying, a lot of it in a "throw it all to the wall and see what sticks" manner. The Power Poll is one of those things. Another is our new podcast, which is patterned after the old 1-900 wrestling hotlines.<p> </p><p> I'm really interested in nostalgia as a promotional tool. Our new poster/graphic for our next event looks like an old PWI magazine cover.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/photos/a.113357719299430.1073741828.110637116238157/179598979341970/?type=3&theater" rel="external nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/photos/a.113357719299430.1073741828.110637116238157/179598979341970/?type=3&theater</a></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I really dig that poster. Cheap price point on the tickets as well. The local Indy promotion that runs near me charges $50 for VIP seating and $30 to watch their three hour show standing up. Needless to say I never go to any of their shows, because who wants to spend $30 to stand up for three hours?</p><p> </p><p> I really like the The Power Poll. I always thought it was cool when WCW used to have the rankings systems in the early 90's (At least I think it was WCW) and I liked it when ROH was using it. To me there is so much you can do with it. </p><p> </p><p> You can have people feud to earn their spot. Maybe someone feels slighted because they were ranked lower than someone else. Little things like that enhance the product.</p>

[Eisen-verse]

Just stopped in to give PWT another look and I'm loving what I'm seeing, NoNeck.

 

It'd be great to see one of your better matches from start-to-finish; to see how well your top tier talent can tell a story in the ring. For now though, highlights are great to see.

 

Keep up the great work!

[NoNeck]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BHK1978" data-cite="BHK1978" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I really dig that poster. Cheap price point on the tickets as well. The local Indy promotion that runs near me charges $50 for VIP seating and $30 to watch their three hour show standing up. Needless to say I never go to any of their shows, because who wants to spend $30 to stand up for three hours?<p> </p><p> I really like the The Power Poll. I always thought it was cool when WCW used to have the rankings systems in the early 90's (At least I think it was WCW) and I liked it when ROH was using it. To me there is so much you can do with it. </p><p> </p><p> You can have people feud to earn their spot. Maybe someone feels slighted because they were ranked lower than someone else. Little things like that enhance the product.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thanks, BHK. Again, I'm still marking out over the poster somewhat. It was exactly what I had envisioned. And I hear you about the three plus hour standing shows, which I've gone to but also find ludicrous. I always find a place to sit down somewhere at some point. Three plus hour shows are rough enough to make it through, let alone to stand through. Sounds like Beyond Wrestling to me, which is close by. And we're going to boost the prices a few bucks at some point, but I'm also consciously marketing our product to the people who are left out of that $30-$50 ticket price range. That was one of the things I had heard a lot of when I did my market research leading up to this whole thing.</p><p> </p><p> The Power Poll is another one of our nostalgia ideas and is purely a way to cultivate some on the fly storylines while giving us some updateable website content. I love how subjective it can be; we never really attribute all of the "sources" of the voting. LOL.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Eisen-verse" data-cite="Eisen-verse" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just stopped in to give PWT another look and I'm loving what I'm seeing, NoNeck. <p> </p><p> It'd be great to see one of your better matches from start-to-finish; to see how well your top tier talent can tell a story in the ring. For now though, highlights are great to see. </p><p> </p><p> Keep up the great work!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Glad you're digging it, EV. We have some stuff online; I'm just figuring out how to monetize our product on YouTube so we're focusing on that. We do have a DVD available of our third show "INFAMOUS", that's available on the website. Features the ladder match of now legendary status (among us anyway) that did thousands of dollars in damage to the venue. </p><p> </p><p> Fresh on the YouTube and Facebook video channels are three matches, two from our last event "Rise of the Machine" and one from our second show in November. From "ROTM" we have King Leon the Sixth facing off against Christina Marie. Leon has been facing off against women ever since leaving Allie Recks by herself in a tag match against Brutal Bob Evans and Tim Hughes. And Christina is a future star, Fact. We also have a bananas tag team match that actually featured a superplex off of the bar. And finally from November, we have our current champion Mike Orlando taking on Jimmy Jacobs only weeks after he'd been let go by WWE.</p><p> </p><p> I put the links below. Enjoy.</p><p> </p><p> Mike vs. Jimmy <a href="https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/180188039283064/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/180188039283064/</a></p><p> </p><p> King vs. Christina Marie</p><p> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/178200429481825/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/178200429481825/</a></p><p> </p><p> Glass & Falco vs. InZanely Rude</p><p> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/178956119406256/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/178956119406256/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> INFAMOUS DVD</p><p> <a href="https://www.prowrestlingtakeover.com/product-page/pwt-infamous-dvd" rel="external nofollow">https://www.prowrestlingtakeover.com/product-page/pwt-infamous-dvd</a></p>

[NoNeck]

<p>Forgot to drop in with an update after our May event, "ALL EGO", so I'll drop the highlight video below. Had Ethan Page in the main event and he was as good as advertised. In fact, the in-ring product on this show was our best yet. </p><p> </p><p>

Plenty of negatives to focus on also, smaller crowd than in January, too many matches (11) and too long a show (3+ hours). Also, for the first time, I put together this show without writing a full on script for it and described what I wanted from everyone in individual meetings backstage. It worked out, but I feel like many of the finer details were lost among the big picture concepts.</p><p> </p><p>

We're heading into July with a women's wrestling heavy show, "There's Something About Allie" featuring Allie Recks, Maria Manic, Solo Darling, and Christina Marie among others. We'll also be debuting international superstar Shockwave the Robot, so that should be very cool as well. I did get word yesterday that our champion, Mike Orlando, hurt himself over the weekend, so we may have to deal with that sooner rather than later. I'm waiting to do anything until after I get a full doctor's report. Mike had just debuted in Booker T's ROW promotion in Texas and was primed to make the jump to the big stage. I'm hopeful the injury doesn't set him back for too long. He's a bona fide star you'll be seeing on Monday nights very soon.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/197688320866369/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/197688320866369/</a></p>

[NoNeck]

<p>YEAR ONE COMPLETE</p><p> </p><p>

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/249175792415098/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/realPWT/videos/249175792415098/</a></p>